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Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in natural language processing allowing paraphrasing text in the required form: from toxic to neural, from formal to informal, from old to the modern English language, etc. Solving the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nikolay Babakov , David Dale , Ilya Gusev , Irina Krotova , Alexander Panchenko

Text style transfer is the task that generates a sentence by preserving the content of the input sentence and transferring the style. Most existing studies are progressing on non-parallel datasets because parallel datasets are limited and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Joosung Lee

Language style transfer is the problem of migrating the content of a source sentence to a target style. In many of its applications, parallel training data are not available and source sentences to be transferred may have arbitrary and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yanpeng Zhao , Wei Bi , Deng Cai , Xiaojiang Liu , Kewei Tu , Shuming Shi

Text Style Transfer (TST) is a pivotal task in natural language generation to manipulate text style attributes while preserving style-independent content. The attributes targeted in TST can vary widely, including politeness, authorship,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Ondrej Dušek

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

Numerous recent techniques for text style transfer characterize their approaches as variants of reinforcement learning and preference optimization. In this work, we consider the relationship between these approaches and a class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Liu , Jonathan May

The performance of existing text style transfer models is severely limited by the non-parallel datasets on which the models are trained. In non-parallel datasets, no direct mapping exists between sentences of the source and target style;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Ruibo Liu , Chongyang Gao , Chenyan Jia , Guangxuan Xu , Soroush Vosoughi

Formality style transformation is the task of modifying the formality of a given sentence without changing its content. Its challenge is the lack of large-scale sentence-aligned parallel data. In this paper, we propose an omnivorous model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ruochen Xu , Tao Ge , Furu Wei

Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Youzhi Tian , Zhiting Hu , Zhou Yu

Unsupervised text style transfer aims to transfer the underlying style of text but keep its main content unchanged without parallel data. Most existing methods typically follow two steps: first separating the content from the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Fuli Luo , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Pengcheng Yang , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Xu Sun

With the continuous development of natural language processing (NLP) technology, text classification tasks have been widely used in multiple application fields. However, obtaining labeled data is often expensive and difficult, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jia Gao , Shuangquan Lyu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Text Style Transfer (TST) seeks to alter the style of text while retaining its core content. Given the constraints of limited parallel datasets for TST, we propose CoTeX, a framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) alongside…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chiyu Zhang , Honglong Cai , Yuezhang , Li , Yuexin Wu , Le Hou , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation, which aims to control certain attributes in the generated text, such as politeness, emotion, humor, and many others. It has a long history in the field of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Di Jin , Zhijing Jin , Zhiting Hu , Olga Vechtomova , Rada Mihalcea

Large language models (LLMs) make it easy to rewrite a text in any style -- e.g. to make it more polite, persuasive, or more positive -- but evaluation thereof is not straightforward. A challenge lies in measuring content preservation: that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amalie Brogaard Pauli , Isabelle Augenstein , Ira Assent

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

This paper proposes a novel method for Text Style Transfer (TST) based on parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Addressing the scarcity of parallel corpora that map between styles, the study employs roundtrip…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruoxi Liu , Philipp Koehn

Text style transfer (TST) aims to vary the style polarity of text while preserving the semantic content. Although recent advancements have demonstrated remarkable progress in short TST, it remains a relatively straightforward task with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jie Zhao , Ziyu Guan , Cai Xu , Wei Zhao , Yue Jiang

The dominant approach to unsupervised "style transfer" in text is based on the idea of learning a latent representation, which is independent of the attributes specifying its "style". In this paper, we show that this condition is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Sandeep Subramanian , Guillaume Lample , Eric Michael Smith , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Y-Lan Boureau

Unsupervised text style transfer task aims to rewrite a text into target style while preserving its main content. Traditional methods rely on the use of a fixed-sized vector to regulate text style, which is difficult to accurately convey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yazheng Yang , Zhou Zhao , Qi Liu